"Having seen this massacre unfold, the creation of an uninhabitable Gaza Strip was the aim and the destruction of all the components of modern life at which the health system lies was the main military objective,” said Dr. Abu-Sittah.
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"We started seeing phosphorus burns,” Abu-Sittah told the press conference. “I had treated white phosphorus burns in the Gaza Strip during the 2009 war – it was very familiar with the very characteristic injuries and burns that they make.”
This is a long article, but every line is worth reading.
I hope this link makes it open to everyone.
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This is a moral puzzle for the Democratic Party leadership, particularly when it is asking the public opinion and the American voters to criticise the GOP and reject Donald Trump.
This interview is as embarrassing as we would expect. Senator Ben Cardin dodges all questions related to conditioning aid to the protection of human rights and non violation of International Humanitarian Laws in Gaza.
His answer literally is: "So, we’ll look back one day and see whether it could have been done more effectively in protecting human life."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/should-us-aid-to-israel-be-contingent-on-human-rights
What the heck, if it is not sleepwalking into authoritarianism.
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"Analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime."
#surveillance #authoritarianism #americanpolitics
https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
"The young children, including the ones who aren’t wounded, are going to be very vulnerable toward catching diseases. And with water there that is very brackish, salty, and the kids get diarrhea. So it’s just set up for a longer-term, very sad situation. And that’s without looking at the type of trauma and burns that we’re seeing. So it’s very hard to express the type of violence that’s actually being imposed on these people."
"It’s different. And yes, I have worked in conflict zones. And they’re always very nasty. But this is a particularly brutal thing because of the huge number of civilian casualties. And they can’t escape it. They can’t move. They’re told to displace down south. But are we talking about just reducing the area from forty-five kilometres to twenty kilometres in length and trying to put two million people in there, which is . . . It’s just an extraordinary situation. And no, I haven’t seen it."
The Trauma of Gaza's Doctors
The head of mission for Doctors Without Borders in Palestine on the horrors of practicing medicine under siege.
#IsraelPalestineconflict #Gaza #doctorswithoutborders
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-trauma-of-gazas-doctors
